Simon is said to be planning to appeal the decision ending his career as a judge.

Alan Simon got booted from the bench for abusing his judicial position in Spring Valley by bullying, harassing and threatening his staff, fellow judges and village officials with arrest or contempt of court, the state judicial watchdog panel's decision states.

Simon often went on rants and "repeatedly threatened such individuals with contempt or arrest over routine personnel or administrative issues in his court," the state Commission on Judicial Conduct said in a 40-page decision released Wednesday.

The report says:

Simon grabbed 22-year-old court intern Maxary Joseph by the arm in July 2012 in an effort to evict him from the Spring Valley's Justice Court's office. The village's two other justices, David Fried and Christine Theodore, approved of the intern, assigned to the court by then-Mayor Noramie Jasmin. Simon disapproved and threatened the police with contempt charges if they didn't remove the intern. Speaking with the police, Simon then referred to Jasmin "in profane vulgar terms and added that he was contemplating holding her in contempt."

Simon acted rude and discourteous to attorneys standing before him in June 2012. He mistreated two lawyers for the Legal Services of the Hudson Valley by imposing a $2,500 sanction on them, despite lacking the authority. The lawyers represented an indigent tenant who had been illegally locked out of his apartment.

Simon also engaged in political activity during 2013 by providing supposedly damaging information on his fellow justice, Fried, to an opponent during that justice's campaign for county executive. Fried won a Democratic Party primary in September but lost the November race to Republican Ed Day.

Simon gave false testimony at his hearing before the commission and continued to insist "his actions were appropriate under the circumstances and consistent with the required standards of judicial behavior."

Simon, 72, a Spring Valley resident, did not return phone messages that were left Monday and Tuesday with the Ramapo Justice Court and with the Spring Valley court. Simon's two attorneys, Joseph Maria and Lawrence Mandelker, also did not return messages seeking comment.

Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence and lawyers who appeared before Simon said the jurist had indicated he would appeal the commission's decision.

The commission cited Simon with a written complaint with four charges on Dec. 11, 2013, followed by a second complaint with additional charges Oct. 2, 2014. The panel heard oral arguments in the matter on Feb. 4.

The commission's lawyer recommended Simon be removed from the bench, while Simon's lawyers sought dismissal of the charges or alternately, if misconduct was found, a lesser sanction than removal.

Commission Administrator Robert Tembeckjian, said Wednesday in a statement: "A judge is obligated to act with courtesy, patience and dignity. Judge Simon was sorely and consistently lacking in judicial temperament."

Simon has had a long career in government, serving as a Bronx prosecutor and public defender in Rockland, before working for more than a decade as Ramapo's town attorney. He served a controversial stint as the town building and zoning administrator, leaving under a cloud of accusations that he overstepped his authority by signing and overriding engineering reports.

He had served as a Spring Valley justice since 2005 and Ramapo justice since 2011. He also had temporary assignments as Suffern justice and was appointed last month as Hillburn justice.

The commission's decision detailed several other incidents. It said in December 2011 Simon went after Richard Deere, a former intern for Fried, who had been hired as a case manager for the Rockland misdemeanor drug court in Spring Valley.

Fried had given Deere permission to use his office after getting approval from the mayor. Simon ordered Deere to leave the chambers or he would be held in contempt of court and charged with loitering or trespassing, the decision says. Simon then argued with Fried when Fried came to the court. Days later, Simon ordered a court officer to escort Deere from the building.

The decision states Simon testified that he didn't threaten Deere with contempt, but acknowledged he mentioned charging him with trespass if he refused to leave.

In May 2012, it said, Simon spoke to Jasmin in a '"rude and discourteous manner" when ranting and yelling at her in front of two Spring Valley police lieutenants. Simon denied doing so when he testified before the commission.

The decision also says that several times, Simon ordered the court officer to arrest the mayor and told Police Chief Paul Modica that he planned to hold her in contempt and the chief should be ready to arrest the mayor. Simon also threatened to throw the chief in jail, it states.

At the hearing, Justice Court Clerk Elsie Cheron testified that on Nov. 29, 2012, Simon ordered her to appear in court. He chastised her because no one had answered the telephone when he called the court at 9 a.m. that day. He told her the phones better be answered or else, dismissing her with, "You may leave the court now. You're not needed here. Go sit by the phone and answer it."

Cheron testified Simon screamed at her "in open court, in front of everybody, like (she was) a criminal ..."

"This was the most humiliating day for me," she testified.

Simon testified at the hearing that he didn't believe his conduct was abusive, but acknowledged, (it) " 'probably was demeaning to everybody, including me... ' but 'I felt I had really no choice in the matter because I felt I had an obligation' to make sure the telephones were answered," the decision said.

The panel decided after the hearing: "We thus conclude that the record before us, in its totality, demonstrates that respondent lacks fitness to serve as a judge and, accordingly, that the sanction of removal is appropriate."